It’s #Minnesota #FossilFriday! 🦥🐃 🐘 🐴🐪🐟🍃There are no documented Pleistocene-age horse specimens in Minnesota. The small size of this m3 tooth has me hopeful. It's about 25mm in length across the crown.

Found by a friend on a river gravel bar it will be donated to the Science Museum of Minnesota for further study.

#pleistocene #equus #molar #paleontology #fossil #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn

• In #Florida, a middle school student who had become pregnant through #rape was denied an #abortion due to the state’s 15-week #abortion ban.

• A resident of #WashingtonD.C., visiting #Ohio over Labor Day weekend, she began to #miscarry a #fetus that wasn’t viable. The hospital emergency room released her & said good luck. Four hours later, lying in the bathtub, she became unconscious, returned to the hospital and waited some more.

• A #Texas man sued his ex-wife’s friends for allegedly helping her obtain an abortion. He accused them of contributing to “wrongful death,” & used text messages between his ex & her friends to make his case.

• In #Oklahoma, a 25-year-old woman with a #molar $pregnancy that is, a cancerous pregnancy that will never result in a baby was told to wait in a hospital parking lot until she became so sick that she could have an abortion.

• There are many more cases in the attached article."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwwn3/a-year-without-roe-here-are-the-stories-of-people-denied-abortions

Source of the excerpts: https://twitter.com/DarkBlue420/status/1671658410306310144?t=TiLCgB37z5Q6A27mI6m6mg&s=19

#didyouknow #DYK

A few weeks ago, I was wondering what was the #origin of the word #mastodon ?

Mastodon doesn't mean big #prehistoric animal.
It refers to the shape of the #molar of this #ancestor of modern #elephants.
These are not flat and striated like those of modern elephants but wear spikes shaped like boobs bc they fed on softer plants.

Here are more details :

https://www.uky.edu/KGS/fossils/fossil-month-11-2021-mastodon-teeth.php

My 10 year old boy is having 2 molars out tomorrow. He's a bit worried about it. So am after the fediverse's recommendations for a) reassuring things I can do and b) things he'll be able to eat/drink while recovering
#dentist #molar #extractions #NoChipsAllowed

Long-Lived Lakes Reveal A History Of Water On Mars
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https://phys.org/news/2022-12-long-lived-lakes-reveal-history-mars.html <-- article
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JE007152 <-- shared paper
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"... KEY POINTS
• A detailed local study of a system of seven previously unknown palaeolakes near the dichotomy in western Arabia Terra, Mars
• High resolution topographic data aids in identification and characterization of palaeolakes and regional hydrological history
• Evidence for a prolonged history of fluvial and lacustrine processes, with palaeolakes fed by groundwater and surface accumulation... "
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Mars #remotesensing #hydrology #paleolakes #lakes #lacustrine #imagery #elevation #DEM #height #basins #solarsystem #topography #geomorphology #spatialanalysis #groundwater #surfacewater #erosion #network #waterflow #flow #fluvial #lacustrine #delta #surfacefeatures #water #HiRISE #MOLAR #LiDAR

So… I always find teeth, don’t know why- they catch my eye somehow. I have many more of these, but most are “just” rabbits, foxes, mice. There is also a complete minute weasel skull somewhere in a box and I have some bird skulls and a variety of vertebrae….harmless collection, honest. I find bones and teeth aesthetically pleasing. Sometimes they end up in sculptures, sometimes they are just in a box as treasure.
#teeth #tooth #molar #kies #tanden
#mudlarking #beachcombing #treasures #collection #mastoartist